A/N: So, this whole time I've been off the grid has been due to computer problems. After the old docs were lost, I also lost motivation to continue writing. Now however, things have been settled and I'm ready to get back into this bitch. So enough of my blabbing, onward!


Naruto watched the man in front of him carefully, both in awe and trepidation. Never had he seen any weapons, any jutsu, that could do what this man had just done. Granted, he was only five, but in the eyes of a child, it was the most amazing thing he'd ever seen.

"Come on Naruto. Let's get you home," said the Jedi as he held out a hand. Except, he didn't take it.

"I don't know you though. You're not the old man," he said, shying away.

"You're right, I'm not," conceded Revan. "But I'm a friend of his too. Besides, you gotta admit home is a lot better than this alley, right?" The boy shook his head furiously, something that caught Revan off guard.

"It's not though. Everyone there is mean to me. The ladies who work at the orphanage ignore me, give me so little food, or just yell at me. The other kids, they don't play with me. They're mean too! They take my food, they break my toys, they push me and hit me and call me names! I don't want to go back!" continued the little boy.

Revan listened patiently as Naruto told him his woes. As he got more and more in depth about his treatment, not just by the caretakers and other orphans but by the villagers in general, the tears ran more freely. Pretty soon, the child descended into an all out bawl, crying out over and over as he begged to know what he did wrong. Acting on instinct, the Jedi pulled Naruto into an embrace, letting the child cry out into his shoulder. He ran through his thoughts, asking himself the same question that kept coming out of Naruto's mouth. First came confusion, then came disgust, and then resolve. He thought back to Sarutobi's conditions about taking apprentices. As Naruto continued to cry, Revan reached out with the Force to sense his potential. What he found startled him. At first glance, he could feel the Force radiating from him like fire. It was a cool blue, constantly enveloping his soul just waiting to be unlocked. When he looked deeper though, he found something much more sinister, much darker, and far more powerful. It came from deeper inside him, locked tight and highly limited in influence, but there nonetheless. It writhed and pulsed, like a rabid, caged animal just begging to unleash its fury. Despite these two extremes, a final check showed him that tiny fractions of both sides mingled with each other. It was as if they were meant intermingle. Regardless of the implications or causes, one thing was certain; Revan wanted answers, and he knew exactly where to get them from. But first...

"Naruto, I'm going to ask you something important," he said as he placed his hands on his shoulders. The boy watched him silently, his sobs having stopped at the sudden change. "Did you run away? You're not in trouble, but did you run away from the orphanage?"

Hesitantly, Naruto nodded, but the truth was in his eyes.

"And you don't want to go back right?"

Another nod.

"Do you want somewhere else to live?"

He nodded again, but this time a smile was forming.

"Come on, we're going to go talk to the old man," declared the jedi.

He turned around and motioned for Naruto to jump on his back. Now grinning wildly, he eagerly climbed on and wrapped his arms around Revan's neck. With a smirk of his own, the jedi took off onto the rooftops. He couldn't help but smile as the boy laughed madly at the speed, his whoops and hollers echoing out through the streets below. More than once, a civilian would shoot there gazes up to the sky but too late. Even some shinobi had difficulty tracking a dark figure in a darkening twilight. Then again, the mop of blonde hair on an ecstatic, and rather loud five year old made for an easy marker. Within minutes, the pair was coming up on the Hokage's tower. Revan, taking a chance, jumped through a wide open window to Sarutobi's office, startling the old man from his numerous reports.

"What in the devil- Naruto? What are you doing here?" he asked in bewilderment. What surprised him even more was that the blonde runt had come in on the back of the very man he spoke to not even half an hour ago. To top it all off were the obvious marks and bruises from the boy's earlier treatment in the alley.

"Hi old man!" he yelled as he jumped down from Revan's back. "This guy just saved me!"

"Saved?"

Revan gave him a single nod. "Sarutobi, I need to talk to you."

The aging Sandaime immediately recognized the serious tone and look in the jedi's eyes. He shifted his focus back on Naruto and asked him to wait just outside the office.

"Revan and I need to talk for a moment. It shouldn't take long, just a few minutes."

"What are you going to talk about?" he asked curiously.

"It's grown up stuff. Now go on, we won't leave," he replied with a grandfather's smile.

The boy pouted and crossed his arms. "But I want to know now!"

Revan chuckled and led him to the door. "I promise you will soon."

The boy huffed as the door opened but complied. As soon as it closed, however, the humor was lost and Revan met the Hokage's gaze with a penetrating stare.

"I need answers."

"There's only so much I can give, Revan," Sarutobi evenly replied.

"No beating around the bush. A child, no less one his age, shouldn't have to be treated with abuse and neglect. I looked into his eyes when he told me why he ran away from the orphanage, I watched as a mob of your 'loyal citizens' cornered and almost beat him to death. The caretakers all but starve him, the children bully him. It's a wonder he can smile at all."

Sarutobi sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. He thought he had the deplorable conditions in the orphanage taken care of. He personally had to change over the staff at least four times.

"There's more. I can sense his aura, but what concerns me is the second aura inside him. His own is strong yes, and best of all it's pure and innocent. This second one however, is an exact polar opposite. It's vile, it's angry, and unnaturally powerful. Each living being has only one aura, so clearly Naruto's isn't the only soul occupying that body."

When they started, Sarutobi had been standing, but now he had sank back into his chair and interlaced his fingers in front of him as he leaned forward on the desk.

"What I am about to tell you can not leave this room," he conceded.

"Give me enough reason and I'll consider it," the younger man responded defiantly.

"This is strictly a need-to-know matter, Revan. I need your full confidence on this."

He resisted for a moment, but only a moment, and the jedi gave a curt nod.

"Five years ago, our village was attacked, not by an army but by a beast. You know this much already. Kyuubi no Kitsune, the Nine Tailed Fox, long considered the Land of Fire's guardian had turned on us. You bore witness to the damages during your last visit. Officially, the Kyuubi was destroyed but at a cost of at least half our shinobi, including the Yondaime. Unofficially, this is false. Minato knew full well that something as powerful as a tailed beast of Kyuubi's caliber could never be destroyed conventionally. So he did the next best thing and sealed it away."

"Sealed it," echoed Revan. "Into what?"

Sarutobi merely nodded to the door, the message abundantly clear. "It was the Kyuubi that you sensed in Naruto. Minato sealed the demon into his newborn son at the cost of his own life. He had prayed and hoped that Naruto would be remembered as a hero, but as you've just found out, that is not the case. I have been fully aware that the villagers distrusted and shunned the boy, but this is the first incident I've been informed of them physically abusing him."

Revan was, for lack of a better term, disgusted. A father was supposed to care for and raise their children, not damn them to a life of misery. "Why a child though? Couldn't he have sealed it inside an object or even an adult? I've seen you shinobi seal and unseal things from scrolls all the time."

"It may have been possible in the case of a lesser demon, but not with the Kyuubi. A simple object would be destroyed, and a full grown adult whose chakra coils had already developed would reject the beast entirely. No, this was the best course of action. However, it is good you found him when you did. If Naruto dies this early on, then the Fox will be set free."

"This early on?"

"Minato was a master of Fuinjutsu, sealing arts. The seal he designed for Naruto intricately links his chakra coils with those of the Fox. Normally, when used with an older individual, the demon's chakra would rip apart and overpower the host from the inside as their coils are already developed. In a newborn however, the demon chakra is mixing with a human's from the very start, and the coils naturally grow resilient to the otherwise poisoning power."

"You're saying that Kyuubi's strength is now Naruto's?"

"In a manner of speaking yes. Passively the chakra will boost his reserves, make his body more durable against damage, and augment his healing rate to name a few perks. To actively use the chakra for techniques, however, is going to require training just like anyone else; for that, he will need to enroll in the Academy."

"By his choice, correct?"

Sarutobi chuckled. "You won't have to worry about that. Naruto has grown extremely adamant in taking my job when he's older. I can assure you he is dead set on becoming a shinobi."

"Did Minato consider the Kyuubi attempting to take control of Naruto when he made the seal?"

"Even I wouldn't know that, but Minato wasn't considered a master for nothing. He was a very intelligent man and constantly made contingencies for every plan he came up with, even in his academy days."

"Then I suppose I'll have to take your word for it."

Revan furrowed his brow as he processed everything he had just been told. In all honesty, sealing a demon inside someone should not have come as a surprise. He had witnessed several occasions where dark spirits possessed the weak willed. Often, these spirits were Sith that never passed on. Still, to doom a child to a life of exile, one's own son, the very thought left a sick feeling in his stomach. He shuddered to think what would happen if the boy gave in to hate. While he could never blame him if he did, the results would be... less than pretty.

"You can probably guess what I'm about to ask next of you," the jedi continued.

Sarutobi nodded in understanding. "I see no reason not to let you take Naruto under you wing, so long as he agrees to it."

For once that night, Revan let a smile tug his lips. With a simple push from his mind, the office doors clicked and swung open. Unsurprisingly, a certain blonde came tumbling in.

"Curious one, I'll give him that," Revan quietly commented. Of course, Naruto jumped back to his feet as soon as he hit the floor.

"What's going to happen old man? Is this guy gonna make me stronger?" he asked as he animatedly pointed to Revan. Sarutobi merely smiled and looked at the jedi, who gave the boy a nod.

"Awesome!" he cheered. "I'm gonna be a ninja in no time!" Revan silently took note of how Naruto's wounds had all but disappeared. Aside from the caked blood, dirt, and tears in his clothing, no one would ever have guessed he had been attacked not even an hour earlier.

It was at that point Revan knelt down and placed his hands on the child's shoulders, quieting him instantly.

"Naruto, I know you are young, but what I am about to ask you is very important. I will be teaching you to be something different than a ninja. They are similar, but different. Are you with me so far?"

The smile fell from Naruto's face. "You mean, I won't be a ninja?"

"Oh no, you'll still have a great head start on your peers when you're old enough to join the Academy, but what I will be teaching you in the meantime will not be easy. It will be hard, it may even break you, make you want to quit. Training to become a ninja is difficult. Training to become a Jedi Knight, which is what I will be teaching you, is no different. Can you stick with it?"

Naruto remained silent and looked downward steadily as his young mind tried to make sense of what his possible new sensei was telling him. Could he keep going if it got hard? Life was hard enough already, so why not? His resolve even stronger, he looked Revan in the eye and smiled again. "I won't give up, even if it kills me!"

Revan laughed. "Let's hope it won't come to that."

Sarutobi nodded in approval as he gazed at the new pair. "Keep an eye on him Revan. That child can be quite the handful."

The jedi gave him a small smirk. "I think I'll be alright. How hard can it be?"


A/N: I'm liking the feedback I've been getting for this story, thanks so much guys! Now, as for the ridiculous gap for this update, my laptop had been out of commission for about three weeks due to a faulty hard drive. Me, in my infinite stupidity, did not back up my crap. Yeahp. After that, I kinda lost a drive to continue for a couple more weeks after that. But now I have that drive back, and the reviews only encourage me to keep going! :DD To answer a couple questions/concerns, I will keep some shinobi elements and trademark techniques, after all the blonde baka wouldn't be himself without shadow clones. I also have not read the book Revan, in fact haven't even heard of it, haha. I'll try to look it up when I can though. More plot has been set! Review!